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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope…
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by…
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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius…
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,…
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he…
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,…
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius…
— Charles Babbage
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The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women…
— Betty Friedan
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Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of…
— James Ogilvy
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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the…
— Berenice Abbott
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Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food,…
— Martha Van Rensselaer
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While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings…
— E. Stanley Jones
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I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that…
— Sarah McLachlan
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In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is,…
— James Henry Hammond
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